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M. W. DEWEY.

T ELEGRAPHIG PRINTING CODE. No. 394,961. Patent edDe0.25,1888

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()EEicE.

MARK V. DElYEY, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR 01* 'lWO-TIHRDH TO EMILLAASS AND CHARLES H. DEELL, OF SAME PLACE.

TELEGRAPHiC-PRINTING CODE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,961, dated December25, 1888.

Application filed March 14, 1888.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARK W. DEwEv, of

Syracuse in the county of Onondaga, in the Z State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Telegraphic-Print i ing Codes,of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawing, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists in a new telegraphicprinting code especiallyadapted for the transmission of messages by the combination of duplex orquadruplex lines, transmittingkeys arranged to be operated two or more 1simultaneously at one end of said lines, and

a corresponding number of markers at the operated respectively by theaforesaid trans mitting-keys, as described in my prior application forpatent, Serial No. 355,1'395, filed November 21, 1887.

The annexed drawing presents a ribbon of l )a )er with inv im )rovedtele 'ra )hicrintin o O b code imprinted thereon.

It will be observed that said code consists, 3

first, in the employment of marks of different lengths; secondly, indisposing in a row at right angles to the line of travel of the paperSerial No. 267,171. (No model.)

i marks in each row of correspoinling lengths; and, fourthly,distinguishing the different letters or characters from each other,either by j, the difference in the lengths of the marks or by thedistances of the marks from the longitudinal edges of the paper. asshown in the drawing hereto annexed.

1 What I claim is-- t The withinalescribed telegraphic-yninting i code,consisting, first, in marks of different lengths; secondly, in thez'u-rangement in a row at right angles to the line of travel oi thepaper of the plurality of marks designating a single letter orcharacter; thirdly, in making the marks in each row of correspondingopposite end of the lines arranged at right 3 angles to the line oftravel of the paper and lengths, and, fourthly, distinguishing thedifferent letters or characters from each other. either by thedifference in the lengths of the marks or by the distances of the marksfrom the loiigitudinai edges of the paper, substan- 1 tially asdescribed and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name, in the presence oftwo wit- 1 nesses, at Syracuse. in the county ot ()nondaga, in the Stateof New York, this lfth day of March, 1888.

MARK \Y. DEWEY. [L

\Vitnesses:

(. H. D CELL, H. M Snanaxs.

